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Show FAR NORTH GETS LIQUOR SUPPLY THROUGH Train With $70,000 Worth of Booze Beats Embargo -by Few Hours rAWSOV. Y. T.. Juna 20. A train-load train-load of RtM'rtPl drlnkablaa ataamad Into ("nnndlan lerrltnry on the Whlta laaa A Yukon railway laat Thuraday, a faw houra bafora tha ambariro on Intoxirama paaalng through I'nllad Htalaa territory hacama affrctlva. Fmirtaan frelahtcara, paxkad to tha roof, hrought provialon acalnat tha probahly dry apall which muat Intar-vana Intar-vana until. If avar, tha I'nllad Btataa govammant ran ha pravalled upon to permit tha Yukon to brlna Ita liquor through tha Alaakan approach, the only practicable route. The emtiarico, brought about by tha declHlnn of the t'nlted Htatea auprama court that liquor could not be carried through I'nlied Rtatea territory from ona country to another, became effective ef-fective midnight June ft. The laat carload car-load of llqiiore reached Kkag-way, Alanka, Juna 4. KYom there train achedulea en tha White Horae route had to ba rev laad for a day. but tha Yukon'e laat drink got throuxh. The aeliinf value of the tralnload la over 170.000. |